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Tables of Contents for One Bird, One Stone
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xiii
Foreword
xvii
PART I: ORIGINAL FACE: EARLY ENCOUNTERS
The Land of the White Barbarians
The Most Beautiful Vow
10
1
The True Meaning of Cleanliness
11
2
Carve Me a Buddha
13
1
Long Time Dead
13
2
I Am from Missouri
15
7
The Mystery of the Bamboo: Early Students and Teachers
First Lesson
22
1
You Spit, I Bow
23
2
It's Not What You Say...
25
1
The Point of Zen
26
4
Ready or Not...
30
2
What Is Serious?
32
1
What Is ``Spiritual''?
33
1
Worthwhile to Help
34
1
Just Like Riding a Bicycle
35
1
A True Person of Zen
36
1
More Things in Heaven and Earth...
37
1
The Next Best Thing
38
6
New Mind and Eyeball Kicks: The Zen Boom of the Fifties
Supreme Spiritual Ideal?
44
1
Who's in Charge Here?
44
1
Know Your Own Mind
44
1
Change We Must
45
3
Beyond Words
48
8
The Sleep of Babes
56
12
PART II: THE NEW BODHIDHARMAS
The Great Migration
Absolute Freedom?
68
1
Not Two
69
1
Every Day Is Important
69
1
Follow the Yes
70
3
Better Not to Ask
73
1
What Is It Like?
73
1
Never Mind That
74
1
We're Responsible
74
1
A Matter of Life and Death
75
5
Does a Dog Have Buddha Nature?
80
1
Nobody Home
80
1
Shaking Hands with Essence
81
1
Wonderful Costumes---Harvey
81
4
Not Taking Sides
85
1
Don't Just Do Something...
85
1
The True Secret of Mindfulness
85
1
Touching the Present Moment
86
5
Already a Corpse
91
1
No More Reading
91
1
Old, Old Thing
92
1
But Why?
92
1
Very Good Demonstration
92
9
Anyway, do Zazen: The Widening Circle
Changing the World
101
1
No Thought Required
101
1
New Tricks?
101
1
Farm Is Emptiness
102
5
No Matter Where You Go, There You Are
107
1
Yeah, So What Good Is It?
107
1
An Unpaid Debt
107
1
Gathering No Moss
107
4
Who's the Boss?
111
1
A Little Advice
111
4
Hitting Bottom
115
1
Making Firewood
116
1
What Next?
116
1
Every Little Bit Counts
117
1
Close, But No Cigar
117
1
Berry Pie
118
1
Throwing Away the Key
119
1
The True Reason
120
8
The Turning Wheel
A Case of Unmistakable Identity
128
1
Neither Hard Nor Easy
128
1
What Does Zen Say?
129
1
This Side Up?
130
1
Now We Can Eat Together
131
1
Now the Real Work Begins
132
1
Mountain Seat
133
2
Flown the Coop?
135
1
Only Breath, Breathing
136
2
Tea for Four
138
14
PART III: TRANSMISSION COMPLETE
Eyes that See in the Dark
152
1
Don't Hurt the Bird
152
1
Light and Shadow
153
5
Taking Root
True Intimacy
158
1
Taking Care of Each Other
158
5
Identity, or Responsibility?
163
2
Sacred Vessels
165
3
Transformation---a Thich Nhat Hanh student
168
1
Performing Magic
169
1
A Turning of the Heart
169
2
How Original Can You Get?
171
1
Making Contact
171
4
Settling In: Points of Practice
Press ``C''
175
2
Gesture Reciprocated
177
4
Expressing Enlightenment
181
1
Hitting the goo-Year-Old Bell
181
3
Sometimes It's Better Not to Know
184
1
Nothing but the Truth
184
1
Full of Everything
185
1
Absolutely Not
186
2
Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls...
188
2
Just as It Is
190
1
The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel
191
1
I'm OK-How About You?
192
1
Problem or Challenge?
192
1
Nowhere to Go
193
1
Trading Places
193
1
Universal Sound
193
1
How You Play the Game...
194
1
Die Now
195
12
The Farther Shore: New Directions in American Zen
Living in the Now
207
8
The Way to Mental Health
215
9
Teacher or Friend?
224
1
The Same Chord, in Harmony
224
1
Nothing to Give
224
3
Glossary
227
4
Suggested Reading
231
2
Endnotes
233
14
Index
247